Southern Spirit Hunters
Beyond The Spirits => Hobbies => Topic started by: duh on Apr 22, 2013, 05:57:44 PM
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currently I have 1 1/2 quadrants cut out. I just had to come in here and put the hints and tips down before I forgot them.
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I've finished cutting out the second quadrant. Happy happy. I only have half of it still left to do.
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I've been trying to get the colors the way I want them. It's been hard to get a good feeling about possible fabrics.
This is what I've decided so far.
I want to really have the feeling of sun shinning through a window on this. So I need to find the point where the light would be brightest and then go from lightest to darkest. Fussy cutting the fabric so that the lightest colors are toward the center of the pieces and the darker parts of the patterns are toward the edges. I think this is going to be a major pain. But then what about quilting don't I see as a major pain? If I didn't love the look of quilts so much I wouldn't put myself through this.
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Ok the boarder areas have finally come together. The top will be like a fan light over a door done in a crocheted outline in number 3 crochet thread in a cream color. See Crochet 3 page 4 for details. I've got it drawn out on tracing paper. Now I just have to move it to full size onto the template. I'll do that with the overhead projector and the design wall. Loving that craftroom.
The bottom will be four pannels with one flower representing each season. Spring daffodil, Summer Hydrangia, Fall Mum, Winter Winter Jasmine. So yellow, blue, cream yellow. I'm very happy with that. Thank heavens I thought I was going to fight with that right up to the last.
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I got everything moved over to the large template. I'm very happy with the results. That's a lot to get done first thing in the morning.
Now Carol is working with me to find the applique flowers for the 4 panels on the bottom. I'll e-mail her and let her know size and which flowers.
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I got the ziploc bags so now I can separate the pattern pieces into colors and store them separately. I want to have this done by Monday. That gives me a goal for cutting out the rest of the pieces. I guess if I'm going to get done I need to get started.
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1/2 of the third quadrant is cut out. The plastic bags are marked with the color code. So there is progress.
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The rest of the third quadrant is cut out. All of the cut out pieces are in their color coded baggie. And only one piece hasn't been identified so I can code it. How in the world did I miss coding some of the pieces? Two so far.
And the template is very delicate. I'm glad I have extra paper around mine or it wouldn't have survived this far. I'm also more determined than even not to try and travel with it.
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The fourth quadrant has been gone over with the medium marker and is ready to cut. I'm excited and scared at the same time.
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you are moving right along with this tammy. i'm excited for you.
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Thanks Jenn, I appreciate it.
I cut out the fourth quadrant so now all the cutting is done.
Then I took the "transparency" and colored it in with the colors I want to use.
From there I took the key that came with the directions and made a key to fit my color choices.
Then I marked off the colors I already have.
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I'm thinking that these little pieces that make up the quilt will have to be cut out with scissors. I can't see that the rotary cutter would be a good tool. I'm not good with scissors.
What needs to happen is I lay out the pieces on the fabric pin them. Cut a piece of interfacing to cover the fabric where the pieces are. Iron it onto the back of the fabric, and then cut out the pieces.
My heart is racing just thinking about it. Crazy huh?
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Here are the pictures of some of the fabrics.
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This is the best picture I could get of the blue fabric pattern.
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This is the width of the blue fabric. It will go on the 3 most inner layers of the wing. The lightest on the inside next to the body and then the middle color and then the darkest color.
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This is the color I will use for the butterfly body.
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those are beautiful pictures of some very beautiful fabric. i think the finished product will be lovely.
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Lovely fabrics.
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Glad you saw them before I started organizing. I'm so crazy sometimes I can't even manage myself.
Well I went to Quilting expressions today to pick up the yellows for the quilt and came home with everything but the blackout lining and the black background fabric. And the metalics are blow your mind gorgeous. I don't have enough light in the craftroom for pictures now that the floor lamp is busted. But I'll try to take them outside the next nice day and get pictures. I'm so excited!
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I almost forgot. I ran into Harriet in Altavista and we had lunch. I showed her what I had and we discussed the other window quilt I need for my bedroom. She has offered to make a pattern of a garden and gazebo with a weeping willow and stream to complement the butterfly. So not only will I have a great window quilt but I'll have a memento of our friendship. I'm really psyched about this.
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that's a great thing tammy! and to spend time with harriet is its own gift as well.
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You are so right there, Jenn.
This morning first thing. I took the brown fabric that will be used for the butterfly body pinned the pattern pieces to it. Pinned the adhesive to the back, and ironed it. Then I got the yellows sorted out. What a mess that was. And I've got an extra piece that I miss marked. That's going to be a mystery until I find out where it goes.
I've started to pin the yellow pieces to the lighter yellow fabric. I hope I will finish that today. As you can tell I am excited.
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I didn't get to see the material but it's way cool that Harriet can make a pattern like that. What a talent and it sounds beautiful.
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Sorry you didn't see the fabrics. I'll try linking to them again when I get pictures of the rest of them.
I've got the pattern pieces pinned on 6 of the fabrics and the iron on adhesive glued to the back.
Today I bought some micro snips. They are suppose to make cutting small pieces easy. We'll see how that goes.
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good luck on that tammy!
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Thanks Jenn.
Ok, this morning I finished pinning the dark blue. I discovered that I hadn't created the second eye of the butterfly or cut it out so I did that and pinned it on the dark blue before adding the adhesive so everything was fine there. I found where the yellow 14 went so I got out the light yellow so I can cut out that piece and add the adhesive to it.
I pinned the blue green and added the adhesive to it. So now I just have the light green to do in the butterfly wing. I'm not looking forward to the cutting but I can do it.
Now I have to figure out how I'm going to carry all of this to the club tonight without loosing any of the pieces. Some of them are tiny.
I remeasured the window. This time using the curtain rod as the "top" of the quilt measurement rather than the top of the window. It gave me the extra room I'll need to create the frame around the stained glass window motif. I'm so glad I was sweating bullets on that one. What is the old saying measure twice cut once? I'm so glad I did. Now I just have to make the correction to the template and figure out how I'm going to add 4 inches on to the background fabric.
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Ok, here are the fabrics for the stained glass butterfly.
The one has the pattern pieces on it. It is actually the center dark blue of the full blown rose pattern.
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The ones to the right will actually be the colors in the butterfly. They are all metalics.
The ones to the left will be the colors of the window. I'm excited.
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that's looking good tammy, and that is a great photo!
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I took 4 photos to get that one. It's like trying to run between the raindrops to get a picture when I'm not shaking.
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I took 4 photos to get that one. It's like trying to run between the raindrops to get a picture when I'm not shaking.
i understand that one!
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Would you believe that I took about 1/2 of what I needed to the quilt club. I had alittle of this and a little of that but not everything I needed for much.
So Carol lead me through patching my template so I can get the boarder on the butterfly that should be there. Then I bought another piece of black for the background so I'll have enough for the patch and the rod pocket.
Harriet's housing at the hospital fell through so she was there for the quilting group.
We discussed the size of the center piece of the second window quilt 26 1/4 inches x 26 1/4 inches. Then the color I want for the boarder on both quilts. I didn't really get any time to talk to her because by the time Carol and I got done she was packing up to leave and I had to go too. Some activities just eat time.
So this morning I got everything in from the car.
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Today I put in the frame that will go around the butterfly. I redrew the fan light but I don't like it. And I decided I would put the label on the lower left corner of the quilt on the top side and leave the right side blank. But I'm not sure I like any of those answers.
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Life just gets more and more interesting as I learn quilting. Grumble! Ok yesterdays chore was relatively simple I thought. Iron on the template to the black fabric. Now, to prep for this step I've added 7 inches to my 45 inch template so that the window quilt will actually reach to the curtain rod so that both window quilts will be hung at the same height. Now my Background black material should be the 52 inches plus hem plus rod pocket. So 4 inches larger than my template right. Carol when she cut the extra piece cut me extra. I didn't plan for extra when I centered the template on the paper. But that wasn't the only problem. I tried to iron on this huge template on the ironing board. Narrow not very long regulation ironing board. Cattywhampus, bubbles, rips, wrinkles, GRH! Needless to say it didn't work.
So today I took off the template and was contemplating just pinning it or just ironing on the edges and letting the stainedglass template fend for itself. So I put the fabric up on my worktable that is a ceramic tile table then centered the template on it. The problem being I wasn't sure if the tiles would crack from the heat of the iron. Fortunately they didn't and the template is now ironed on to the fabric. I won't say it's perfect. It isn't. There are a few rips that had to be repaired and somehow the stained glass portion seems to have come out of true but it's close enough I can work with it I think.
Next I'll cut out all 100 plus pieces of the butterfly.
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Exciting news! Harriet is designing the next window quilt so that it is also stained glass applique. Isn't that cool. She is worried that I may end up with it looking to busy in the bedroom. Now I'm worried about it too. I do have a tendency to collect until it is cluttered and then I am unhappy. Anyone have any ideas for me?
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I'll invite Harriet over to look at the room. She has an eye for decor that I lack. That should fix the problem.
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sounds like you have a plan then. good thinking.
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Thank you. The trick is not to over tax her strength while making sure she is engaged and happy to the greatest extent possible.
Ok, this morning I pinned the light green fabric for the butterfly. That's the last of that for the moment.
Next few steps so I don't forget anything.
1. Put adhesive on back of light green fabric.
2. Cut out the last 3 fabrics.
3. Fray check all of the pieces.
4. Place pieces on template and iron down, then pin for sewing.
5. Sew with invisible thread.
6. Zigzag thin edge on all of the stained glass pieces.
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Ok the adhesive is applied and the light green is cut out. So currently I've cut out over 100 pieces for this quilt. Probably another 2 days of cutting unless I decided to work on it some more until the locust leave.
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I stopped by Carol's today. I had left my paper scissors there so I picked them up. I asked her about the adhesive not sticking she said she would leave the iron on it longer. And if that didn't work, she said to try glue stick. So I may cut out the rest tonight but I'm not getting near the iron in this heat. Ugh, I really wish the heat pump was working.
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I tried holding the iron on the fabric with the heat bond for 10 seconds and finally I got the bond I want. At least, I think I do. So I'm happy for awhile. I managed to get the blue green fabric cut out. I make a bag for small scrapes of the fabric I'm using on this project. Just incase I loose a piece or something. There still isn't anything to take a picture of, well maybe the template. I'll have to see if I can get a picture. Probably not because the craft room is to dark unless it is a bright sunny day.
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Today I cut out the last of the fabric for the butterfly. I'm excited and scared at the same time. If I am going to get a picture of the template I'll have to do it today before I start filling it in. But that will probably be after my nap, I can feel my eyes drooping.
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There is always a problem. I got all the pieces ironed on the background and the pattern pieces pulled off and then the template pulled off and noticed that I hadn't placed the pieces as well as I had thought so a bunch of them had to be pulled off and moved. That caused raveling which looks bad of course. And then I noticed that the black was showing through the non-metalic fabrics and causing them to loose their look. So now I'm in the process of recutting about half of the pattern pieces in white cotton to put behind the fabrics so their natural patterns will show. Fun!
At least I'm making progress. So no pictures. I have them on the camera but i have no way to upload them to the computer since the software is on my harddrive.
Sometimes it all drives me crazy.
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The white cotton pieces are cut and ready to be placed after they are matched with the colored pieces. I'm figuring one to two days for that. Wish me luck.
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good luck!
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Thank you it looks like I will need all the luck I can get.
I do a couple a day and it's taking me weeks.
I'll never do an applique on dark background with botiques again.
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Still moving slowly when I move at all. ugh.
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Nothing has changed. I'm still slowly pinning the pieces to the background. I get one pinned and then the next one doesn't fit the way it's suppose to and I have to go back and do the one before. And of course in the process I've lost one of the pieces and need to do it again. Third time if you can believe it.
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You're a better woman than I. I would pitch a fit and quit. Just like my socks.
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I get to this point on most projects so I've learned to "power through," otherwise I'd have to give up on crafting in general. But I know what you mean.
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I've got to admit this has been painful to do. Currently I'm finding it is better for me frustration wise to just do a running stitch along all the pieces on the top by hand. On a good day I can do one piece each day. But for every good day there are a weeks worth of bad days where I don't do anything. Hopefully I'll get the winter schedule up and running and things will improve. I can sew while watching tv if I can talk myself into it. The problem are the pins that migrate into the rug, couch and other places to ambush me when I least expect it.
Anyone else quilting?
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This project has been on hold. I am planning on restarting soon. I'm going to start taking these projects to meetings with me so I at least get a little done.
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almost a year from my last post. They are starting a Flying Fingers Needle Crafting Group in January and I'll be restarting the quilt. I need the motivation of the group to keep at this project.
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A good plan, Tammy.
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good luck!
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thank you. I'd like to get it finished.
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Well I'm back on the quilt top "stained glass butterfly.' It's comming along since we started the craft group. I have about one and a half sides done.
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Good. And welcome back.
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Good. And welcome back.
yes tammy, you've been missed...
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Thank you. I've got my fingers crossed which is why it is probably going so slow. lol.
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I have 86 pieces to set on the quilt top yet and then I can sandwich the quilt. Daunting lol.
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Wow, daunting is right. Good luck.
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Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to you finishing :)
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Me too. Then I'll only have 6 window and one bed quilt to go, lol.
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I'm manic. I know because I started two more quilt tops and the stained glass isn't finished. One is a block of the month from the Quilting Board Forum and then the other one is for a beginner's machine piecing class that I'm taking at the quilt shop so I finally learn what I'm suppose to be doing. We'll see how that goes. Wish me luck.
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I almost finished the Honey Bee (1st block) for the BOM quilt and I was pressing it when it scorched. There were something that I didn't like about the block so this was the perfect opportunity to change them. So I ripped out the outside border changed the colors and resewed them. Now all I have to do is cut out the petals again and then sew them onto the block. I'm thinking I will fuse it.
Oops two was buying the fabric for the Beginner's Machine Piecing Class. I bought it at walmart and ended up with drapery fabric. Not good for a beginning quilter I was told. So 77 dollars later I had all new fabrics. Hopefully there won't be any more errors of that type. See what happens when I try and save a few pennies.
The Stained Glass is still sticking me with pins everytime I touch it so I'm still not making much progress.
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Good going, Tammy.
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Here is the first block for the 2015 BOM Quilt from the QuilltingBoard.com
And this morning I cut out the pieces for the second block. I feel like I'm getting somewhere.
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9 blocks and the sashing and borders to go woohoo!
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And today we cut out the 9 patch for the Beginner's Machine Piecing Quilt Top I don't have a picture of that yet, but I will.
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Good going!
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tammy, you are really rocking on those!
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This is the third block
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Pretty... :grinnnn:
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Thanks guys. I don't have new pictures but I will. It's just taking time to get everything done.
The Machine Piecing and Machine Quilting classes have helped a lot. In fact they may answer the questions concerning the butterfly quilt as well. It's just going to take a lot of practice.
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Good. We all do better when we learn new things. Not just in quilting, in every aspect in life.
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The mini art quilt isn't as good as I had hoped but it's a start.
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I added the titles to the books and the numbers to the clock. It looks much better now but I learned that the fabric softener sheets do not make good tear away fabrics lol. Live and learn.
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Never wash an art quilt, who knew? Now I have to start over but I'll probably wait until the end of the series.
Next month is printing Pictures on fabric. I have no idea how to do that but that's what the book is for. Wish me luck on that one. The Beginner's Piecing Class is moving right along. I finished the 4 friendship stars and 2 jacobs ladders and now I just have to cut out the ohio star. Then it's boarders yeah!
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So who knew. The next quilt is done out of the book. It is tracing and then fusing pretty much like the first one I did except this one is a pear. I've cut out the pieces in the fusible web and chosen all of the fabric. The rest we're going to do at the meeting. The one after that in this same chapter is the one I'm doing in line with the "Manmade" theme. I'm going to try and do the parthenon. I wonder how that will turn out.
The machine quilting has taken a turn to stitches that are too large. I guess now I'm moving the material too much. Ah well I still have 5 1/2 months to get it right.
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Good going, Tammy.
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Thanks Tina. This morning I made my quilted nametag for the quilt club I joined. I didn't do a very good job it was a complex pattern. But I was told I needed to bring it for Friday so I did it. Only managed to make one point and lost the fabric on one edge but i did the best I could. I'll make another one when I know what I'm doing. Hope I remember to take it with me on friday lol.
The Parthenon scared me so I decided to do a vase instead. Much more my speed. lol.
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Good thinking. Baby steps.
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tammy, if you did the best you could, and you know what you did wrong, you are ahead of the game. and i agree, changing the pattern to something simpler is a good thing if you are struggling. like tina said, baby steps.
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I lost a very long post I hate it when that happens.
Here is where I am at the moment and what I need to accomplish on each project.
1. Beginning Machine Piecing Sampler - Doing the Ohio Star Blocks. I have 2 done and need to complete 2 more. Then cut the borders and arrange the blocks in their final configuration.
2. 2015 BOM - got instruction for Lois on the Card Trick and chose fabric. Need to have it finished and a picture taken by April 30th.
3. Explorer Club - Have the pear mini quilt ready to go. Have the homework quilt designed and the fabric chosen. Need to finish it by May 13th and do the first exercise in Chapter 3.
4. Stained Glass Butterfly Window Quilt. - Work on my quilting skills until I can top stitch the applique.
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you are busy...
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Wow!
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Finished the Ohio Star blocks and had put on hour glass the wrong direction. Of course it was in the middle row so I had to frog it. And while frogging it I punctured it with the seam ripper so I had to do another one. But it's all done correctly now. So, that is good. Then I cut the border fabric and got the arrangement numbered so I am ready to sew. I did not take a picture when I had it laid out. I didn't think of it. Sorry
The Card Trick block keeps tricking me. I cut the fabric and did it wrong and now I have to cut it all again. Doesn't that figure?
Here is the first Mini Art Quilt -
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Sorry for the blur, even on the two step ladder I'm wobbly.
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that's pretty tammy. and i'm wobbly too, so don't feel bad.
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Thanks Jenn.
Here is a shot of the card trick that gave me so many problems. I still don't know how to put one together. Now to mention what happened with the one way fabric.
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That is so weird looking even now.
But I got it done and I'm excited about that.
When I get the Class Quilt sewing together I'll get a picture of that as well. I don't know why I wasn't taking pictures all along.
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tammy, that looks like it is pretty. a little complicated, but pretty. you will have to keep us posted.
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Jenn it's listed as confident beginner but it sure gave me what for. I'm still not sure how it is suppose to be done. But I'll keep you updated on everything if I can.
I'm putting the blocks together on the sampler quilt. Next Tuesday is the final class and will put on the borders. After that we're on our own to quilt them and then bind them. I hope all goes well. I've never bound a quilt before.
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i've done some basic machine quilting (stitching in the ditch kind of thing) and binding. the binding was the easiest part for me, but... i'm sort of ocd about things like that, and by the time i got that far...
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I took the freehand machine quilting class but I need a lot of practice. In the mean while I plan to do some of these quilts using the walking foot which is much easier.
The sampler is put together and rolled up ready to go to class. The borders and binder material is also cut out. I'll get a picture next time around.
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How could a 5 inch name tag cause so much trouble? I may have to cut out another one and have my mentor show me how to do it. i'm not getting it.
I've picked out most of the fabric for the Mt Fuji 3 panel window quilt. That's exciting. And I found the fabric for the music that I wanted in the Baltimore Album Memory Quilt. That set will be very personal.
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Lets see so far I've decided on the following quilts for the house.
Fur Patchwork for the bed in winter.
Crazy Quilt for the bed in summer.
Stained Glass Butterfly for the 1st bedroom a/c window
Stained Glass Garden for the 1st bedroom front window
3 panel Mt Fuji Window Quilts for the Bay Window
3 Baltimore Album Memory Window Quilts for the craftroom
The sampler for the sliding glass door in the dinningroom
The Asian Influence for the Home Office.
That only leaves the back door and the kitchen. Both little windows.
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you are ambitious tammy. good luck with it!
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Thanks Jenn. I've started machine quilting the sampler. I'm doing stitch in the ditch using my walking foot. And I'm copying the templates for the appliqued blocks on the Mt Fuji side panels. That's so I can work on those at the applique group meeting. I've made an antipasto dish for that event. So it looks like everything is going ok.
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Well I've done the long lines on the sampler and rearranged it for the shorter rows.
I have the first applique blocks cut out and I'm basting it 1/2 inch in so that when I needle turn it will be a nice 1/4 inch and look right. Or at least that is the hope.
I have the 5th block for the BOM it stairs to the alter. It looks hard but as soon as the other stuff it caught up I'll work on those.
The applique group was wonderfully fun and I learned a lot so win win.
Next week is the Queen Bee Group (community donated quilts) and the Explorer Group (Art Quilts) both which should be exciting.
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tammy, it sounds like you have found a niche that is working for you. i'm glad.
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I hope so too. I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment but I'm hoping once I have a handle on some of these skills things will smooth out.
Tomorrow I go to the quilt club. I hope to ask my mentor if my straight line quilting is good enough for the queen bee community quilts. If not I've still got a bunch of stuff to practice on.
Beth has volunteered to teach me binding so many I should wait until after i learn that to worry about the community quilts.
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i agree on the binding. i'm glad you have someone teaching you.
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She got a spot on the schedule for surgery so we've put off the binding until she has healed up.
I guess the third time is a charm. I finally got the name tag finished and I think it looks pretty good.
I'm finishing the last 1/4 of the stitch in the ditch for the sampler. I'll probably hang it and then decide if I want to do any more. I need to see how it drapes over the window.